How live is CaribSea Arag-Alive ?

[bk_market]

Im going to run my tank BB for maybe a week then add maybe 2 bags of this sand in. Question is how live are these sand? Do I have to rinse it or it will take away all the live things in it?

 

How much of a cycle will I get by adding 2 bags of 20lbs each to my 90g? Please advise

 

http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewItem~idProduct~CS0790.html

 

Thanx

Hung

[extreme_tooth_decay]

I used some of this to seed my tank when I was getting started.

 

I don't know how live it is, but I definitely wouldn't rinse it.

 

tim

[jnguyen4007]

Hung,

 

From what I heard from other folks and read, save your money. Live sand just isn't worth the money to spend on.

 

James

[flowerseller]

From experience only, and nothing I've read or heard,

THIS STUFF WAS AWESOME.

 

 

I started a 20 QT tank with one bag of the course media stuff, 10g from my tank and 10g premixed water and then added 9 clowns, 12 bangai cardinals and a wrasse.

Not one fish develpoed any signs of stress.

3 clowns, the wrasse and 3 bangais left in the few next days and flew to WA .

All did fine and were packed in that water w/ air from my compressor.

 

DO NOT RINSE

 

 

this is live bacteria sand, not to be confussed with "live sand" with critters.

[AndrewB]

We love the products and highly recommend them. Many of our customers have had relatively uncured live rock complete the nitrogen cycle in a week or less using the product line.

 

We usually recommend that it be split with the dry counterpart to mitigate cost.